Thursday, April 3, 2008

OnlineJournalismBlog.com How the world looks depends on who's looking, as these cartograms mapping coverage by Slate (top) and the London Daily Mail (bottom) show.

Craigslist poised for $81 million in '08 revenue, could top $100 million (paidContent.org): "Craigslist stands to bring in $81 million in revenue in 2008, according to a report by researcher Classified Intelligence. If that comes true, it would represent a 47 percent gain over Craigslist's $55 million revenues for 2007."

The world according to newspapers (Online Journalism Blog): "The cartograms below show the world through the eyes of editors-in-chief, in 2007. Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them."

Why journalists should not become bloggers (Craig Stoltz) "Blogs aren't even kindergarten in new media. Get a reporter, an editor, a producer and a developer to sit down together. Have them figure out how to report on some important civic event without writing a story at all. Welcome to middle school."

The nation's great news outlets still own the field (editorsweblog): "Project on Excellence in Journalism director Tom Rosentiel said, 'Advertising in general won't generate enough revenue in the future.' Instead he proposes a cable model, where the subscription fee for each major newspaper is embedded in the access fee to the Internet company."

Life Without the Print Edition (Steve Outing): "What could a paper like the Boulder Daily Camera offer to non-print subscribers that represents revenue? One potential opportunity is to offer deeper coverage of specific industries that are big locally, or of specific companies with a big local following."

Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing (Times Online): This article cracked me up. Since when did most book authors make more than a pittance off of their books, anyway? I think the U.K. authors' organization discussed here needs to be more honest with itself about the true economic prospects of print book publishing.

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Why (most) authors and publishers need not fear online piracy (ArsTechnica): "Yes, authors should be in control, but they shouldn't be afraid. Business models will no doubt change as they have in other content industries, but writing and writers won't disappear so long as demand for the product exists."

Sweden: Media companies boycott Telia's mobile platform Surf Open (editorsweblog): "The Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association is supporting several media companies in the boycott of Telia's newly launched mobile service Surf Open because the service affects the content and form of newspaper sites without the consent of the publishers."

Finding is the new advertising (Gerry McGovern): "Traditional advertising is broken because it charges us time, when time is becoming our most valuable resource. Traditional advertising works well in time-rich, money-poor economies. It works less well in today's money-rich, time-poor economy."

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